📷Grants available📷to support forest restoration work on non-federal lands. #NewsRelease #Grants #Forestry fs.usda.gov/detail/r9/news…

#BEBEARAWARE Seeing a #blackbear is a rare and exciting experience. The very things that make bears fun to watch – their curiosity, acrobatic antics and large appetites – are the things that give bears the ability to ruin your camping trip. fs.usda.gov/visit/know-bef…

Our first #fallcolor report of the season ! Leaves on Ottawa National Forest are starting to change. Shorter days and cooler nights triggered a change especially in the maples and cherry trees. uptravel.com/outdoors-recre… 📸USFS

Students are heading #BackToSchool – Ask them how many forest products they can find in this picture? So many products so much research. See our website: research.fs.usda.gov/fpl #OurSustainableFuture USDA Forest Service 🌲🏫📚✏️🍎🌳

I’m the 2024 #SummerReadingChampion! Head to your library & start your adventure with a book from my reading list. Show me what you’re reading this summer with #SmokeyBearReads! Learn more and review the list: cslpreads.org/nationalsummer… #AdventureBeginsAtYourLibrary #CSLPreads

Ottawa National Forest are closed for Labor Day ! Enjoy and be safe everyone.

Temperatures, low relative humidity , and wind gusts up to 20 miles per hour could cause near elevated fire weather conditions over the west half of the U.P. #OnlyYouCanPreventWildfires

#FallColorReport

Ottawa National Forest Hunter Walking Trails are getting mowed & will be finished by Sept. 15, 2024. Follow this link fs.usda.gov/main/ottawa/ma… for full list of HWT maps. Happy and safe bird hunting! 📷 USFS

#FallColorReport 🍂across the Ottawa National Forest are showing at about 20% or less. Areas that experience more cold at night, younger vegetation, or more stressed vegetation are showing more. Healthy mature trees are all still very green. 📸 USFS

During #photosynthesis, chlorophyll absorbs energy from blue and red light waves, and reflects green-light waves, making the plant appear green. Chlorophyll exists in the light absorbing cells of the plant called chloroplasts. fs.usda.gov/.../fall.../sc…

News Release U.S. Forest Service Resource Advisory Committee Welcoming Project Proposals conta.cc/3ZlJNdE

#TuesdayTip Go Lights Out... protect migrating birds by turning off all non-essential nighttime lighting on structures from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. each night.

Learn about Youth Conservation Corps, a summer work experience for teens in the Ottawa National Forest with a story done by Discover the U.P. youtu.be/2iL_eW_-Jjs?si…

Fall Color Report 🍂 Less than 25% color change throughout Ottawa NF and Western U.P. #fallcolors 📸 USDA Forest Service michigan.org/fallcolormap

The True Story of Smokey is up along the nature trail at the Visitor Center. Inquire about the scavenger hunt that goes along with it! If you finish the worksheet you get to pick a Smokey Bear prize ! 📸 USFS #smokeybearreadingchallenge

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Beautiful fall nights are wonderful for campfire cooking and stories. All we ask is that you completely extinguish your fires by using water and stirring with a tool until it is dead out. #OnlyYouCanPreventWildfires

#FallColors are starting to pop. Brown, red oak leaves are starting to fall as well as yellow birch and big tooth aspen. Red and oranges of maples are becoming more vibrant with sunny days and longer nights. michigan.org/fallcolormap

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